iLife ’06
The iLife suite of “anti-productivity” tools has gotten better, and more integrated in this great release. iWeb, a website creation tool, is the new member of the iLife family. Below are some of the new features, broken-down by product.
iTunes- this is a free program, bundled with iLife, the only updated (6.0.2) is a new mini store feature, which offers music as you listen to your library.
iMovie- New to iMovie is the ability to create a title movie, open multiple projects, and a sound editor, and the ability to create more text effects.
iDVD- You can now create a “Magic iDVD” in a snap, new themes, and a new interface makes this program even better.
Garageband- new podcast studio, with added loops, and jingles, makes this program alone worth the cost of the entire suite.
iPhoto- new photocast lets you share your photos with people via a photo RSS feed. Additional books, cards, calendars, and the new editing in full-screen, makes this a good upgrade.
iWeb- this is the new addition to the iLife family, this is a really great, and handy tool for creating websites on the go. iWeb features many Apple designed templates (or you can start from scratch and make your own). Then you just enter in the information, add links, music, photos, and podcasts, click upload, and all the RSS, and encoding is done for you! Your site can be uploaded to .Mac, or you can save the files as .HTML, and upload them to your own server.
This was a really big (and much needed) upgrade to iLife. All of the upgrades really make this an amazing version of iLife.
